新视界大学英语综合教程第三册Unit5Activereading课文及翻译.docVIP

Unit 5 Active reading The lonely American 1 Americans in the 21st century devote more technology to staying connected than any society in history, yet somehow the devices fail us: Studies show that we feel increasingly alone. Our lives are spent in a tug-of-war between conflicting desires – we want to stay connected, and we want to be free. We lurch back and forth, reaching for both. How much of one should we give up in order to have more of the other? How do we know when we’ve got it right? 2 Yet people in this country continue to drift apart. We need to know why. 3 First, let’s look at the f